GLOBAL ENGLISH • 5000 languages are spoken in the world; • 1 place – Chinese; • 2 place – English ; • English is spoken by 500 million people; • English is spoken in 60 countries; • Modern English consists of 600000 words; • 80 % computer information is in English ; • 60 % telephone calls are made in English.

GLOBAL ENGLISH • 5000 languages are spoken in the world; • 1 place – Chinese; • 2 place – English ; • English is spoken by 500 million people; • English is spoken in 60 countries; • Modern English consists of 600000 words; • 80 % computer information is in English ; • 60 % telephone calls are made in English.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN TIME FAMOUS PERSON ENGLISH LANGUAGE 55 В. С. Julius Caesar Did not exist 5 century King Edwin The earliest English 1066 William the Conqueror Both French & English 16 century William Shakespeare 6 mln people only in Great Britain

DOUBLE TROUBLE : SOUNDS and LETTERS When a poet writes a verse ” Why is horse not rhymed with worse ? Beard is not the same as heard , lord is different from word ? Cow is cow, but low is low, shoe is never rhymed with toe. Think of nose and dose and lose , Think of goose and then of choose. ” To sum it up, it seems to me, that sounds and letters disagree The English language has: 41 sounds but 26 letters 60 % silent letters

WHY IS IT SO? 1. If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? 2. Why can “ hot dogs ” be cold ? 3. There is neither “ mush ” nor “ room” in mushrooms. 4. ” Blackberries ” are green. 5. When the moon is out, it is visible — but when the lights are out , they are invisible ? That is so because language is created by people, not computers.

MYSTERY OF PUNCTUATION Can you punctuate the sentence? King Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut of Punctuation can often say a lot.

GRAMMAR IN RHYMES A noun is the name of anything As School, Garden or King. Adjectives tell the kind of Noun As Great, Small, Pretty, White or Brown Instead of Nouns the Pronoun is , As Mine, Yours, Our and His. Verbs tell of something being done- To Read, Count, Laugh, Carry or Run. How things are done the adverbs tell As Slowly, Quickly , Ill or Well. Conjunctions join the words together , As Men and Women , Wind and weather.

The preposition stands before A noun, as In or Through a door. The interjection shows surprise, As — Oh! How pretty! Ah! How wise! Three little words you often see Are articles – A, An, and The whole are called Parts of Speech Which reading, writing, speaking teach.

DO YOU KNOW? 30000 words from Old English ; “ the, of, and, to, a, I, ”- the most frequently used; “ Ee”-the commonest letter ; “ Ss”-starts the most words ; “ Smith”- the commonest English name

PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS The Earl of Sandwich , an 18 -century English aristocrat. Hooligan — the name of an Irish family famous for their quarrels and fights. Jean Nicot , French ambassador , brought tobacco plant to France. Etienne de Silhouette , French Minister of Finance, who amused himself by making shadow pictures.

“ It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out ”. George Mikes ▫

AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH “ We are two countries separated by a common language” G. B. Show

FEEL THE DIFFERENCE BRITISH AMERICAN 1. to talk to friends 2. to look out of the window 3. to wear a jumper 4. Have you seen him? 5. He is mad. 6. Our hotel was not the Ritz. 7. Stay at home! 8. What did you say? 9. I don’t know. 1. to talk with friends 2. to look out the window 3. to wear a sweater 4. Did you see him ? 5. He is crazy. 6. The hotel was awful. 7. Stay home! 8. Wha ddya say? 9. I dunno.

WHY IS IT WORTH LEARNING ENGLISH 1. English is the easiest language to learn. 2. 80% of English words came from other languages. 3. English is the standard language of international communication. 4. English is a global language.